Appendix 6. 

 REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the opera- 

 tions of the library of the Smithsonian Institution during the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1916 : 



The number of packages of books received during the year was 

 31,017, as compared with 29,928 packages in the year preceding. 

 Of these 29,619 were received by mail and 1,400 through the Inter- 

 national Exchange Service. Correspondence in connection with these 

 included 1,241 letters and 3,997 acknowledgments on the regular 

 printed form. The total accessions of books, pamphlets, and parts 

 of sets aggregated 11,755. 



SMITHSONIAN MAIN LIBRARY. 



Publications for the main Smithsonian library are forwarded each 

 day, after entering, to the Smithsonian deposit in the Library of Con- 

 gress. Those catalogued and accessioned during the fiscal year num- 

 bered in all 18,637, which may be further described as 3,101 volumes, 

 739 parts of volumes, 383 pamphlets, 13,155 periodicals, 211 charts 

 and 1,038 parts of serials to complete sets; extending the numbers 

 in the accession book from 521,617 to 525,255. 



The cataloguing included 5,045 volumes, 200 charts, and the adding 

 of 738 new titles and the making of 5,329 typewritten cards; 3,480 

 printed cards from the Library of Congress for publications de- 

 posited by the Institution were filed in the catalogue. In addition, 

 3,596 volumes were recatalogued on standard size cards, from the old 

 catalogue for inclusion in the new catalogue. 



Documents relating to public matters and statistics of foreign 

 countries, presented to the Smithsonian Institution largely in return 

 for its own publications, were forwarded to the Library of Congress 

 without stamping or recording, continuing a policy of some years 

 standing. The publications sent in this way numbered 4,642. 



Dissertations were received from Utrecht, Toulouse, Lund, Upsala, 

 Leiden, Leipzig, Giessen, Paris, Bern, Pennsylvania, and Johns Hop- 

 kins, and from the Technical Hochschules of Berlin and Stuttgart. 

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